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November 22, 2004
Ban The Electoral College?
A letter to the editor of the WSJ today makes an interesting observation regarding federalism and the U.S. Senate:
I always find it remarkable that so many people call for ending the "unfairness" of the Electoral College but you almost never hear these same people calling for the abolition of the U.S. Senate. If the Electoral College is "unfair" when California gets 55 electoral votes and Delaware gets three, isn't the Senate far worse, where California gets two votes and so does Delaware? Is it "fair" that in the last election one candidate won a Senate seat by getting 121,000 votes, while another lost despite getting 3.5 million? But that's federalism for you.Thomas F. Harrison
Cambridge, Mass.
Posted by Peter Mork at November 22, 2004 6:42 AM
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